Lectures & Conversations
What are Facts Anymore? And Other Post 2016 Election Issues:
From episode 21 of the podcast, "Healthy Curiosity" by Dr. Welch's acupuncturist sister, Brodie Welch, licensed acupuncturist in Corvallis, OR: Uncertainty can be hard to deal with. Not knowing where you’re headed and what’s in store can make us feel like we need to do something...
16 November, 2016
Food is not the savior
Dr. Claudia Welch & Cate Stillman talk about food. How it is important, but it may lead to neurosis to place all our bets on food to be our Savior. ...
08 April, 2016
Create Your Bliss with Nika Annon Interviews Dr. Claudia Welch
Create Your Bliss w/Nika Annon interviewed Dr. Claudia Welch on 3rd April 2016. You can download the interview below or listen to it in the 'Archived shows' section at: http://www.nikaannon.com/radio/. ...
09 March, 2016
Breast Health
Dr. Welch talks about two major considerations in breast health - considerations she wished all women knew about so we could all have the best mammarian (yes, she knows that is not a word) health possible....
15 February, 2016
Stress Hormones & Ayurveda
In this special interview Dr Claudia Welch, Ayurvedic Practitioner, gives a refreshing holistic perspective on hormones, the difference between adrenaline and cortisol, male and female sex hormones, and perspective on how to balance your hormones....
11 February, 2016
Becoming the Medicine We Practice
Ancient Āyurvedic texts describe four qualities one must possess to become an effective physician: Excellence in theoretical knowledge, lots of practice, dexterity and purity. Dr. Welch explores some of the weird and interesting aspects of these qualities and how cultivating them can enhance our ability to have...
02 December, 2015
You Feed What You Focus On
In this talk introducing the February 2015 run of the Healthier Hormones course Cate Stillman and I, among other things talk about: How Emily Post was teaching Ayurveda in her own way Oliver Sacks take on living and dying The Art vs. the Science of Healing “Who affects whom?”...
18 February, 2015
Working with Addiction
A conversation for practitioners and anyone else who may be interested, with Durga Leela, founder of Yoga of Recovery and Dr. Claudia Welch Durga Leela and Dr. Welch discuss the role of identity (in Ayurveda called, ahamkara) in addiction, the understandable tendency to focus on our...
18 August, 2014
The Hormone Cure
A conversation on between Dr. Welch and Dr. Sara Gottfried MD, author of The Hormone Cure Are we really fat, lazy and unproductive? Or maybe courageous? What do hormones have to do with integrity? What is real pleasure? What is Dharma? Do we have to...
09 July, 2014
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